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  46. Ibid., page 68.

  47. Ibid., page 100.

  48. Johnston, The Austrian Mind, Op. cit., pages 23 and 32; and Schorske, Fin-de-Siècle Vienna, Op. cit., page 19.

  49. Schorske, Op. cit., page 19.

  50. Bradbury and McFarlane (editors), Op. cit., page 37.

  51. Robert Ferguson, Henrik Ibsen, London: Richard Cohen Books, 1996, page 321.

  52. Everdell, The First Moderns, Op. cit., page 290. Franz Servaes, ‘Jung Berlin, I, II, III’, in Die Zeit (Vienna), 21 and 28 November, 5 December 1896.

  53. Bradbury and McFarland (editors), Op. cit., page 499.

  54. This was based on Ibsen’s anger towards his own countrymen. Ferguson. Op. cit., pages 269ff.

  55. John Fletcher and James McFarlane, ‘Modernist drama: origins and patterns’, in Bradbury and McFarlane (editors), Op. cit., page 502.

  56. Ibid., page 504.

  57. Sandbach, Op. cit., page viii.

  58. Ibid., page ix.

  59. Frederich Marker and Lise-Lone Marker, Strindberg and Modernist Theatre, Cambridge, England: Cambridge University Press, 2002, page 31; James McFarlane, ‘Intimate theatre: Maeterlinck to Strindberg’, in Bradbury and McFarlane (editors), Op. cit., pages 524–525.

  60. Marker and Marker, Op. cit., pages 23ff.

  61. Bradbury and McFarlane (editors), Op. cit., page 525.

  62. André Malraux, Picasso’s Masks, New York: Holt, Rinehart & Winston, 1976, pages 10–11.

  63. Everdell, Op. cit., page 252; Fletcher and McFarlane, Op. cit., page 503.

  64. Burrow, The Crisis of Reason, Op. cit., page 148.

  65. Ibid.

  66. Ibid., page 148.

  67. Ibid., page 149.

  68. Ibid.

  69. Ibid., pages 162–163.

  70. Roger Smith, The Fontana History of the Human Sciences, Op. cit., page 851 and ref.

  71. Ibid., page 852 and ref.

  72. Ibid., page 853. Curtis Cate, Nietzsche’s biographer, says he anticipated Freud, Adler and Jung in realising that an individual’s attitude to his or her past is essentially ambivalent. This can act as a stimulant, or the opposite. But the past can provide inspiration, a force for the will. Curtis Cate, Friedrich Nietzsche, London: Hutchinson, 2002, page 185.

  73. Burrow, Op. cit., pages 189–190.

  74. See Everdell, Op. cit., pages 1–12, for a discussion of what modernism is ‘and what it probably isn’t’. And page 63 for Seurat’s Sunday Afternoon on the Island of La Grande Jatte as a candidate for the first modernist masterpiece. Malcolm Bradbury and James McFarlane, ‘The name and nature of modernism’, in Bradbury and McFarlane (editors), Op. cit., page 28.

  75. Bradbury and McFarlane (editors), Op. cit., page 50.

  76. James McFarlane, ‘The Mind of Modernism’, in Bradbury and McFarlane (editors), Op. cit., page 85.

  CONCLUSION: THE ELECTRON, THE ELEMENTS AND THE ELUSIVE SELF

  1. The Cavendish prize-winners included J. J. Thomson (1906), Ernest Rutherford (1908), W. L. Bragg (1915), F.W. Aston (1922), James Chadwick (1935), E. V. Appleton (1947), P. M. S. Blackett (1948), Francis Crick and James Watson (1962), Anthony Hewish and Martin Ryle (1974), and Peter Kapitza (1978). See: Jeffrey Hughes, ‘“Brains in their finger-tips”: physics at the Cavendish Laboratory, 1880–1940’, in Richard Mason (editor), Cambridge Minds, Cambridge, England: Cambridge University Press/Canto, 1994, pages 160ff.

  2. See the photograph on page 243 of: J. G. Crowther, The Cavendish Laboratory, 1874–1974, London: Macmillan, 1974.

  3. Mason (editor), Op. cit., page 162.

  4. Crowther, Op. cit., page 48.

  5. Steven Weinberg, The Discovery of Subatomic Particles, New York: W. H. Freeman, 1983/1990, page 7.

  6. Mason (editor), Op. cit., page 161.

  7. Paul Strathern, Mendeleyev’s Dream: The Quest for the Elements, London: Hamish Hamilton, 2000, pages 3 and 286. See also: Richard Rhodes, The Making of the Atomic Bomb, New York: Simon & Schuster, 1986, page 30.

  8. Ibid., page 31.

  9. Ibid., pages 41–42.

  10. Ibid., pages 38–40.

  11. Ibid., pages 50–51 and 83–85.

  12. Roy Porter, Flesh in the Age of Reason, London: Allen Lane, The Penguin Press, 2003, pages 69ff.

  13. Ibid., page 30. Wahrman, The Making of the Modern Self, Op. cit., pages 182–184.

  14. Bradbury and McFarlane (editors) Op. cit., page 86; and Arnold Hauser, A Social History of Art, Op. cit., volume IV, page 224. In Augustine’s Invention of the Inner Self (Cambridge, England: Cambridge University Press, 2003), Phillip Cary argues that Augustine invented the concept of the self as a private inner space and in so doing inaugurated the Western tradition of inwardness.

  15. Burrow, Op. cit., pages 137–138.

  16. Ibid., page 153.

  17. Robinson, ‘Symbols at an Exhibition’, Op. cit., page 12.

  18. P. B. Medawar, The Hope of Progress, London: Methuen, 1972, page 68.

  19. John Maddox, What Remains to Be Discovered, London: Macmillan, 1998, page 306.

  20. John Cornwell (editor), Consciousness and Human Identity, Oxford and New York: Oxford University Press, 1998, page vii. See: Simon Blackburn, ‘The world in your head’, New Scientist, 11 September 2004, pages 42–45; and Jeffrey Gray, Consciousness: Creeping Up on the Hard Problem, Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2004. Benjamin Libet, Mind Time: The Temporal Factor in Consciousness, Cambridge, Massachusetts: Harvard University Press, 2004.

  21. See, for example, J. R. Searle, The Mystery of Consciousness, London: Granta, 1996, pages 95ff.

  22. Roger Penrose, Shadows of the Mind: A Search for the Missing Science of Consciousness, Oxford and New York: Oxford University Press, 1994.

  23. Ibid., page 87.

  24. Cornwell (editor), Op. cit., pages 11–12. Laura Spinney, ‘Why we do what we do’, New Scientist, 31 July 2004, pages 32–35; Emily Suiger, ‘They know what you want’, Ibid., page 36.

  25. Robert Wright, The Moral Animal, New York: Pantheon, 1994, page 321.

  26. Olaf Sporns, ‘Biological variability and brain function’, in Cornwell (editor), Op. cit., pages 38–53.

  27. John Gray, Straw Dogs, London: Granta, 2002, page 151.

  About the Author

  Peter Watson was educated at the universities of Durham, London, and Rome. He is the author of thirteen books, which have been translated into seventeen languages, and has presented several television programs about the arts. Since 1998 he has been a Research Associate at the McDonald Institute for Archaeological Research at the University of Cambridge. He is the author of The Modern Mind: An Intellectual History of the Twentieth Century. He lives in London.

 

 

 


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